Anyone else getting tasks? I seem to be able to ping the servers now and I am able to see that the project has no tasks available but yet the server status page shows almost 800,000 tasks available. Nothing is coming across for CPU or GPU.

Are we still having issues?

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Well, I am able to (suddenly) upload without a proxy, but a, still getting:

Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

Have over 200 completed tasks to report, have been out of CPU tasks for some time...

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but yet the server status page shows almost 800,000 tasks available.

Look again, that was over 8 hrs ago.

Did they increase the storage space for unsent WUs? I can't remember seeing it that high. Usually seems like it peaks near 250k.

1) "Results ready to send" doesn't matter. You connect to the "feeder" which holds at max 100 tasks at a time.
2) After a maintenance cycle when everything is working correctly it takes about a day for things to get back to normal. Depending on how many people are hammering the servers & the kind of work that is getting sent out.

With the current limits being imposed, 50 CPU tasks & an equally low # of GPU tasks, I am surprised I have seen any work come through at all. Most of my requests come back as "project servers may be temporarily down" or 0 tasks sent. As of this post it show the count down to about 500k. So there is work going out.

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1) "Results ready to send" doesn't matter. You connect to the "feeder" which holds at max 100 tasks at a time.
2) After a maintenance cycle when everything is working correctly it takes about a day for things to get back to normal. Depending on how many people are hammering the servers & the kind of work that is getting sent out.

With the current limits being imposed, 50 CPU tasks & an equally low # of GPU tasks, I am surprised I have seen any work come through at all. Most of my requests come back as "project servers may be temporarily down" or 0 tasks sent. As of this post it show the count down to about 500k. So there is work going out.

Yes, and normally after the weekly maintenance period the cricket graph is pegged. This hasn't happened and currently it is flat lined and has been for hours. Obviously there is still something going on.

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Ya, I'm seeing the same thing. Have a couple hundred tasks to upload, but I get the same issue. Internet ok, but servers may be temporarily down. I have not received any normal workloads in quite some time. My oldest workload expires on 9 Oct 11. I have CUDA workloads that are downloading now.

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1) "Results ready to send" doesn't matter. You connect to the "feeder" which holds at max 100 tasks at a time.
2) After a maintenance cycle when everything is working correctly it takes about a day for things to get back to normal. Depending on how many people are hammering the servers & the kind of work that is getting sent out.

With the current limits being imposed, 50 CPU tasks & an equally low # of GPU tasks, I am surprised I have seen any work come through at all. Most of my requests come back as "project servers may be temporarily down" or 0 tasks sent. As of this post it show the count down to about 500k. So there is work going out.

Yes, and normally after the weekly maintenance period the cricket graph is pegged. This hasn't happened and currently it is flat lined and has been for hours. Obviously there is still something going on.

For some time the "PIAX router" has been wonky. When I first saw the line go flat I was hoping maybe they took the router down to upgrade its memory, but that should not normally take 4+ hours.

Maybe the guys the router & rack space have got another piece of equipment that is getting setup right now. If that is true they probably would pull the old one, put the new one in, and then set it up as the connection isn't "mission critical".

Then again something could have simply pooped out higher up. When I try to do a trace I don't hit any HE equipment. My hop from ALTER.NET gives me "Destination host unreachable".

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SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours
Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[

Yes, and normally after the weekly maintenance period the cricket graph is pegged. This hasn't happened and currently it is flat lined and has been for hours. Obviously there is still something going on.

For some time the "PIAX router" has been wonky. When I first saw the line go flat I was hoping maybe they took the router down to upgrade its memory, but that should not normally take 4+ hours.

Maybe the guys the router & rack space have got another piece of equipment that is getting setup right now. If that is true they probably would pull the old one, put the new one in, and then set it up as the connection isn't "mission critical".

Then again something could have simply pooped out higher up. When I try to do a trace I don't hit any HE equipment. My hop from ALTER.NET gives me "Destination host unreachable".

In addition to the known problem with the wonky router at HE's PAIX facility, which is donated by a third party, there were reports of a major DDoS attack on the entire HE system, which may have been part of an attack on the Bank of America website and computer network.

And there may also be server problems at S@H. I have been getting "project has no tasks available" for my laptop since I came home from work (at about 2300 PDT) Tuesday night. My desktop box has been unable to connect to the servers to report two tasks since Tuesday night (same internet connection).

But it's after 0800 PDT, they'll be doing what they can as soon as they have their morning coffee......

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired